Vanderbilt "took" billions of dollars providing affordable transportation around New York so that New Yorkers could afford to get to productive jobs and resulting goods and services could be shipped affordably from source to consumer.
Intel "took" billions of dollars revolutionizing the CPU and thereby the PC market making the internet possible.
I suppose the one thing we could all agree on is that JD Rockefeller raped the planet and took billions just to create global warming.